Been a sackable offence for over a decade in finance, I can not fathom why other sectors have been so slow to enforce some basic standards.

Recording every call, message (and in my office - thing you said at your desk) is mostly used for conflict resolution - when counterparties disagree you go to the tapes and see what was said. From there my word is my bond, it is done.

GDPR guarantees a right to privacy even on work devices. I think you need to filter out personal messages if compliance requires logging.

Why would they need anything different? If they offer the same features as other chat apps, they can simply aim to compete on price (and/or on other non-functional attributes like performance, reliability, UX, social connection, etc).

If anything it is highlighting the pointlessness of any new messaging platform. Companies can and should lock down to the platform that comes with their subscription for everything else - and for all personal matters that is locked down with network effects by sms, whatsapp & wechat.

You could maybe make the case for a federated - email like - messaging service for inter company / party communications. Matrix basically ...

I'm not reading anything in this article that seems to pretend like it's working in their favour?

It's just an article from a company about their industry, companies do that all the time for brand recognition, building trust (showing expertise in their domain), and educating potential customers about why they might need this sort of product (lead generation).

What would possibly differentiate a chat app?

Like zoom where you chat disappears when the meeting is closed?

Or how about slack, that lives in an alternate reality where outlook calendar can be ignored?

I refuse to install that malware on my phone. Upshot is that I don't get bothered by coworkers after hours.

I have not for couple of years, but before covid I've worked in a well-known Polish company that was trying to force everyone to use at first HipChat, then some awful OSS chat. My team set up discord then.

I also didn't fully understand if the context is:

- Ban ANY use of your personal chats / device at work (eg. your wife texts you to bring milk on the way home)

- Ban WORK communication (eg. My colleague don't understand recent commit I've made)

So the web really isn't explaining how things enforced or what is being done. I do know of some industries where you put your personal phone when entering specific locations or having stickers on cameras) but here I didn't fully understood the scope.

Colleagues often setup WhatsApp groups etc so not on company slack/ms teams which will be monitored/loggged

Using personal messaging apps for work, for example, sending work related messages through WhatsApp or Telegram instead of using the proper corporate/official app.

You can forbid your employees to use non official apps to send work related messages for privacy, compliance, security and other reasons.

Finance - no personal devices in the office and no personal (or unauthorised) messaging apps on your work devices.

It's not at all uncommon. I didn't have a usable work phone number for years given that, even when I technically had a desk, I was never there. I always used my personal phone and, for that matter, laptop for that matter.

Would you rather they used Teams? Or what would be a better alternative? Phone / email?

Why not delete it? I assume that if you don't have it, they offer some other form of communication with you?

Chat Control 1 or 2?